Each year I teach a lecture on gender and health to my third-year students. Alongside ideas of gender roles and norms, gendered power relations and the move from a binary to a spectrum understanding of gender, I introduce the idea of gendered health inequalities, the pay and status gaps and the impact of austerity. And each year at the start of my lecture I ask the students how many would define themselves as feminists. Routinely less than 5 of the 70 or so students raise their hands. When asked why, it becomes apparent that for my students, feminism is seen as a negative term, anti-men, radical and outdated……Please click here to read the full blog at the Cost of Living Blogsite